Japan needs to promote digitalisation as rising inflation and interest rates will increase demand for new financial services from households, a Bank of Japan executive said on Friday. Financial assets ...

Core inflation in Japan's capital hit 2.5%, marking the fastest annual pace in nearly a year, well exceeding the central bank ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The fading shadow of reflationists in the Bank of Japan, and the latest addition to the board of an ...

The Japanese government expects its annual debt-servicing costs to rise to almost $230 billion over the next four years as the central bank’s campaign to gradually raise interest rates drives up ...

The Japanese government on Tuesday nominated Waseda University political science and economics professor Junko Koeda to join the Bank of Japan's nine-member board. The appointment comes at a critical ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

The move comes in line with expectations from CNBC’s survey, where an overwhelming majority of economists predicted a hike.

Out of 19 economists, 18 agreed on prospects of a rate hike, with most pointing to a recent change in tone of the BOJ ...

We aim to build confidence in the safety and reliability of payment service providers’ services while protecting end users from specific risks. We’re taking steps to better understand the impacts of ...

Executives at a major Japanese bank issued an apology and announced pay cuts Thursday following the arrest of an employee accused of embezzling around 1.4 billion yen in valuables from clients' safe ...

TOKYO (AP) — Executives at a leading Japanese bank apologized and took pay cuts on Thursday after police arrested an employee who allegedly stole about 1.4 billion yen ($9 million) worth of ...